Sunday, June 1, 2014

This is an Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1974 Mohamed Abdel
Aziz 106-minute color film We Must Love in the Summer [fil-seyf
lazem neheb] starring Salah Zulfikar based on a story by Mohamed
Hassan and Mohamed Salem with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed Salem
and cinematography by Mostafa Imam. Plot summary: Dr. Nabil [Salah
Zulfikar] took four of his patients from a hospital for nervous
disorders to Alexandria believing they would be cured by mixing with
the people. One of them was Ahmed [Nour El-Sherif, who lived with
numbers and had a breakdown while working at a bank. The second was
an amateur musician named Medhat Youssef [Samir Sabri], who competed
for a prize at a song festival but failed. The third was Mohamed
Youssef the mathematician who went to the hospital because of a
personal crisis, and the fourth was Geneidy [Sameer Ghanem] the soccer
player who had failed as his team's goalee and who believed there were
conspiracies all around him. On the way to Alexandria they met a man
named Fadel Abdel Hafiz [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] and his daughters on
the al-Agami beach. Maggie [Magda El-Khatib] became friends with
Ahmed, Mohamed became friends with Zainab [Amira], Medhat became
friends with Madiha [Madiha Kamel] and Geneidy became friends with
Rawia [Lebleba]. In the midst of comedic, musical and dance scenes at
the beach and in the hotel Dr. Nabil restored his patients to health,
and they even demonstrated they were all normal when the police came
to investigate a complaint about the presence of deranged people at
the hotel. Of course they all fell in love and lived happily ever
after.